"Senior, our progress this time was surprisingly smooth. Bengbu is indeed an empty city as you expected."
Taro Aso is flattering Kitashirakawa.
Kitashirakawa enjoyed it, riding a tall horse, holding a whip and pointing forward: "This little Bengbu is not in my eyes at all. I came here to kill people, just to tell that Dragon Boat Festival, in our Empire of Japan
In front of them, they have no rear at all.
I just want to kill his majesty. Let him know that his so-called achievements before were only because I, Kitashirakawa Aoi, did not come to China. Otherwise, how dare he show off his power in front of the Empire of Japan?"
Taro Aso quickly said: "What the senior said is absolutely true. This time, our successful attack on Bengbu will also inspire the imperial army. Then we will press the border with our troops. The small Huainan, no, the entire Jinpu line will soon be
Become the possession of our Imperial Japanese Army."
"Hahaha!"
Bei Baichuan laughed proudly, but at this moment, intensive gunshots suddenly came from the center of Bengbu town.
Kitashirakawa stopped his horse, and Taro Aso also looked towards the center of the town in surprise.
But because it was too far away, he couldn't see anything.
At this moment, a Japanese communications soldier came to report: "Sir, our forward team was attacked by a small group of Chinese soldiers. There were more than thirty people in total, and all of them were broken into pieces."
"Baga, how can you have casualties in such an empty city? Don't be dazzled by victory. What I want is a complete victory, do you understand?"
Kitashirakawa scolded him, and the communications soldier quickly bowed.
At this time, Taro Aso said: "Senior, I think the Imperial Army of the First Division was just careless for a moment. Compared with the thirty-odd people, we still have a complete victory over the Chinese."
Kitashirakawa looked a little better after washing his face, then pointed his horsewhip at the communications soldier and said: "Go tell Ito, don't underestimate the enemy. The Imperial Japanese Army is invincible. If there are a lot of casualties in an empty city, we will lose this attack."
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"Hi!"
The Japanese communications corps took the order and immediately went to convey the order to Ito.
As the frontline commander, Ito frowned slightly. It could be said that even he had not expected that the elite of his first division would suffer more than thirty casualties in one go while fighting such an empty city.
After observing the terrain, he ordered the two squads to be divided into six combat groups, and launched attacks against the security group on the front of the street, the drum tower, the inn, the regular army on the mill, etc.
Chen Shusheng was at a high place, and the Japanese soldiers came in six groups, so he could see clearly.
"Use flag language to tell Zhuzi, Shuanzi, Xiaoqi and the others that the Japanese troops are divided into six groups. Among them, those attacking the Drum Tower are a feint attack, and those attacking the inn are the main attackers.
The Japs here are also our main attack direction, but the security team can rest assured that that is the Japs’ final target. Let them disperse everyone, and the Japs may use grenade launchers.”
Chen Shusheng gave the order, and a communications trooper took the order and left, and then used flags to inform various places that the Japanese troops were divided into six groups. Only the inn and the mill were the main attack, and the other positions were all feint attacks.
But even if it was a feint attack, the Japs fought very hard, and especially the Japs' shooting skills were very good. A soldier on the drum tower fired with a machine gun, but just after his machine gun bullets swept through the Japs' bunker, a Japs
He quickly stood up from behind the bunker and fired, hitting the soldier's helmet with one shot.
The helmet was struck with a clang, and the soldier's body almost spun around and fell to the floor of the Drum Tower.
The squad leader Shuanzi on the side quickly took off his helmet to check, and saw that the soldier had his eyes closed and was breathing heavily, as if he was seriously injured.
Shuanzi raised the opponent's head to see where the bullet had been. After searching for a long time, he couldn't find even a drop of blood. When he looked at the helmet again, there was a deep scratch on the right side, which almost penetrated the helmet from the side.
Already.
But it was a pity that the little devil's bullet failed to hit the middle of the helmet and was eventually slipped away by the helmet, and the soldier also saved his life.
Shuanzi angrily kicked the opponent and said: "Get out of here, you little bitch are so lucky. The little devil's bullet bounced off the helmet. The bullet didn't hit you."
"Really? Am I okay?"
The soldier jumped up from the ground like a spring, with an expression of surprise and joy. Just now the little devil's bullet hit his helmet, and he thought he was dead. But unexpectedly, the helmet saved his life.
.
He picked up the helmet and kissed it. At this time, Shuanzi scolded: "Everyone, cheer up for me. These little devils have accurate marksmanship. They must return it to me when changing magazines. Let's
Shoot alternately, leaving no gaps for the Japs. Regardless of whether the Japs are feinting or attacking, just follow the main attack."
"yes!"
The soldiers took the order and divided a squad into two groups to shoot. Shuanzi took the other two people and shot in the direction of the inn.
The main target of the Japs' attack was the inn, because as long as this inn was captured, the three enemy commanding heights could be divided into two, and they could launch a strong attack on the enemies in the mill and drum tower without having to worry about the bullets fired from the inn.
As mentioned before, Chen Shusheng's machine gun platoon was divided into three groups and occupied the drum tower, inn, and mill respectively.
These three locations are in the shape of a pin character. The inn is located directly in front of this pin character.
Therefore, if the Japs want to attack the Drum Tower and the Mill, they cannot avoid this inn. Therefore, they can only feint to attack the Drum Tower and the Mill from a distance.
There is only a small road on the west side of the mill that can be bypassed, so the Japanese also sent two teams here.
One of the teams was restrained from a distance, while the other team detoured from the west and attacked Chen Shusheng's right wing.
Chen Shusheng had a small number of people, so it was very uncomfortable to be flanked by the Japs from two directions. And if the firepower of the machine gun platoon had not been strong enough, I am afraid that the Japs would have defeated each of these three positions.
But even so, Xiao Qiyi in the front inn was a little overwhelmed. Under the fierce attack of Japanese shooting and grenade launchers, three soldiers were killed one after another.
Xiao Qi quickly filled the empty positions with the machine gun, otherwise once the Japs rushed over, the consequences could be imagined. There were only twenty-two people in his team, and eight of them were just temporary ammunition handlers.
As a machine gunner, you must naturally have an ammunition hand. Otherwise, if one person holds a machine gun and carries an ammunition box on his back, there will be no need to fight, and he will die from exhaustion.
Therefore, there has always been a rule in Chen Shusheng's machine gun company. All the soldiers in the machine gun company are machine gunners. Once the machine gunners need to fight, the soldiers in the rest of the baggage team will all serve as ammunition carriers to provide ammunition for the machine gunners!